Philip Reed

Philip Reed (1760-2 November 1829) was a US Senator from Maryland from 25 November 1806 to 4 March 1813, succeeding Robert Wright and preceding Robert Henry Goldsborough, and a member of the US House of Representatives from Maryland's 7th district from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1819 (succeeding Wright and preceding Stevenson Archer) and from the 6th district from 19 March 1822 to 3 March 1823 (succeeding Jeremiah Cosden and preceding George Edward Mitchell). He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Philip Reed was born in Chestertown, Maryland in 1760, and he served as a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; he fought at the Battle of Stony Point and was seriously wounded at the Battle of Camden. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1787, as sheriff of Kent County from 1791 to 1794, and as a member of the executive council of Maryland from 1805 to 1806. From 1806 to 1813, he served in the US Senate, filling Robert Wright's vacant seat. He then served in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819 and from 1822 to 1823. He died in 1829.